Racist chanting, drunken behaviour and thefts - just some of the incidents involving fans of clubs from the wider Birmingham area on British trains and in train stations last season.

Tens of thousands of the region’s fans travel to and from games without incident every week.

However, that’s too much to ask for a small minority of supporters whose bad behaviour has been laid bare by an exclusive Freedom of Information request made to the British Transport Police (BTP) by the Birmingham Mail.

At least 67 different incidents involving fans of either Aston Villa , Birmingham City, West Brom , Wolves or Walsall were logged by the BTP last season.

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There were also 36 cases of common assault, four incidents of grievous bodily harm (GBH) and one incident of wounding.

There were also six incidents reported of fans “sexually touching” female train passengers.

They include an Arsenal fan grabbing a woman’s buttocks and groin on top of her clothing. Another saw a Sheffield United fan stroke a woman’s legs with his foot, and a Grimsby fan groped a woman from behind while alighting the train.

There were also 21 incidents regarding pyrotechnics including an Everton fan throwing a flare from trains onto the platform, and a Brighton fan setting off a smoke grenade.